Handmaiden Moth at Pambula Preschool
Identification history
| Unidentified | 22 Oct 2019 | elizabethgleeson |
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User's notes
Guessing this is a moth. The finger is a child's finger to give an idea of the size. Found on our swing frame last week.
2 comments
GlennCocking
wrote:
25 Oct 2019
Note the prominent white tips to the antennae. This suggests A. nigriceps, but other species have white antennal tips to varying degrees so Kerri's Amata sp is wise.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.884414-36.932664
- Altitude 19.1m
- Places Pambula, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Oct 2019 08:38 AM Recorded on
- elizabethgleeson Recorded by
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Insects Tiger moths (Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) elizabethgleeson South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Amata (genus) Scientific name
- Handmaiden Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1425.71m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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